Modesty died when clothes were born.

[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

It is better to give than receive- especially advice.